If Alpine activated the galley mode in F1 (14 points in 20 races), the Hypercar program in the World Endurance Championship (WEC), launched this year, meets expectations, or even exceeds them. There is still one race left this season, the 8 Hours of Bahrain on Sunday (start at 12 p.m. French time), but the results are already clearly positive. The French team, currently 4th in the Championship, remains on a podium, its first, at Fuji a little over a month ago, thanks to the 3rd place of the A424 n° 36 driven by Nicolas Lapierre, Matthieu Vaxivière and Mick Schumacher.